1684 – Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, dies at about 75
1846 – Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
1945 – Eric Liddell, Scottish 400m runner (Olympic gold 1924) and Christian missionary in China, dies of an inoperable brain tumor at 43 while interned at the Weihsien Internment Camp in Weifang, Shandong, China
1961 – Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor (developments in refrigeration), dies of lung cancer at 67
1965 – Malcolm X [Little], African American human rights activist and Muslim minister, assassinated in New York City at 39
1976 – Frieda Inescort, Scottish actress (Meet Corliss Archer), dies at 74
1991 – Nutan Bahl, Indian actress (Seema, Bandini), dies of breast cancer at 54
1993 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine, dies at 68
2002 – John Thaw, English actor (Inspector Morse), dies of cancer at 60
2008 – Sunny Lowry, First British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911)